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Her fiction has imagined societies riddled with misogyny, oppression, and environmental havoc. These visions now feel all too real.

What former NBA coach Monty Williams learned in the wake of losing his wife.

On water in the West, climate change, and how the birth of modern environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell.

A profile of Gil-Scott Heron.

A primer.

On becoming a stepmom.

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

A preview of the “nuclear option.”

An investigation into “a subtler form of redlining.”

Inside a megachurch started by Procter & Gamble brand managers.

There is no script for losing a spouse in your 30s.

In an excerpt from the author's debut novel, LAPD officers search an affluent couple's home.

From 2009 to 2014, police in Florida shot 827 people. Many of these incidents were avoidable and unnecessary.

Conspiracy theorists think that the government killed the aspiring Libertarian filmmaker David Crowley to stop him from making his film about an authoritarian takeover of the United States and the vets who fight back. The truth is far stranger.

The city that fell in love with the mob.

“I saw the son of a bitch while I was up on my tractor, running the rotary cutter along a wall of green sagegrass that was five feet high. It was August in Mississippi, hot, on over in the afternoon but not near sundown. The sky had softened, and the coyote was trotting along in the open like the most unconcerned thing you could imagine.”

“Rosemary was wide awake the whole time. The doctors had her recite poems as they cut—when she was silent, they knew the procedure was complete.”

Every year, thousands of teenagers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe.

The story of Lisa S. Davis and Lisa S. Davis.

“Brace Belden can’t remember exactly when he decided to give up his life as a punk-rocker turned florist turned boxing-gym manager in San Francisco, buy a plane ticket to Iraq, sneak across the border into Syria, and take up arms against the Islamic State. But as with many major life decisions, Belden, who is 27 — “a true idiot’s age,” in his estimation — says it happened gradually and then all at once.”

Disillusioned with fine dining, one of the world’s great chefs took on fast food. It has been harder than he ever imagined.

“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.”

An essay on clothing in uncertain times.

Young people who leave strict Jewish communities face a bewildering, lonely new world. One group helps them navigate it.